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More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
